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“Important” a leader taliban killed in a targeted Musa Qala raid KANDAHAR (Afghanistan) - “important” ordering taliban “directly responsible” for the catch Friday of Musa Qala, chief town of district in the south of Afghanistan, was killed Sunday morning by a targeted air raid, affirmed the international force of NATO. “This key figure of the talibans was known to have ordered the insurrectionists in the district of Musa Qala. It was directly responsible for the recent attacks conducted by the insurrectionists in the village for Musa Qala”, declared the spokesman with Kandahar (southern) of the international Force of assistance...

The talibans control Musa Qala, according to the ministry for Defense KANDAHAR (Afghanistan) - the talibans controlled Saturday morning the locality of Musa Qala, chief town of a district of the same name in the province of Helmand (southern of Afghanistan), announced the Afghan ministry of Defense. Attacked in the night of Thursday to Friday by an unspecified number of “students in religion”, Musa Qala “has been under the control of the talibans for yesterday (Friday) afternoon ", declared in AFP the spokesman of the ministry, the general Zahir Azimi, by stressing that there were no more police officers...

1 hour, 45 minutes ago NATO-led troops killed a senior Taliban leader with a precision airstrike near a southern Afghan town overrun by militants, a spokesman for the alliance said Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT click here Col. Tom Collins said the airstrike near Musa Qala on Sunday morning killed a senior Taliban leader riding in a car. Musa Qala on Thursday was overrun by an estimated 200 Taliban fighters who disarmed local police, ransacked the district center and hoisted their trademark white flag. The town had been subject to a peace deal brokered last October between village elders and the Helmand provincial...